Verse 32
DAVID ACCEPTS ABIGAIL'S REPROOF AND THANKS HER
"And David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand! For as surely as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male." Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, "Go in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition."
It is exactly in situations like this that the glorious character of David, in spite of his sins, shines in its true splendor. David humbly received the rebuke of this woman, thanked her and thanked God that she had come to meet him with such a plea. This is very much like the occasion in his later life when he responded to the condemnation of the prophet Nathan, following his murder of Uriah.
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